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Sometimes you just want to share your music (and we don't mean in the slightly illegal Kazaa kind of way). Instead of carrying a separate portable speaker system with you, the Samsung K5 could be the answer. Behind the MP3 player's screen lies a hidden speaker that folds out to supply your sounds. Read the full Samsung K5 review in today's paper.
You might think everything Apple touches turns to gold these days but you only have to look back to 2005 at its disastrous collaboration with Motorola on a music phone for evidence to the contrary - though the phone maker must take most of the blame. For its latest music effort, Moto has gone it alone and the lessons learnt serve the new Z6 well.
Apple's switch to the same Intel CPUs that power Windows has created the delicious irony of Macs that run the Microsoft operating system as well if not better than machines from Dell, etc. You have two choices for running Windows on a Mac - natively via Apple's Boot Camp or virtualised with enabling software such as Parallels Desktop.
Remember the original Star Trek in which communications officer Uhura had a cool earpiece resembling a small pine cone that contained both microphone and speaker? That was 1966 but, finally, 41 years later fiction has become fact.
When Apple introduced the iPod Shuffle in 2005, rivals sneered that it wouldn't sell because it lacked a screen and was unsophisticated. Millions of sales later and Creative seems to have had a rethink, giving birth to the Zen Stone. Clearly aimed at the Shuffle, its chief weapon is price - half the cost for the same amount of storage. Read the full Creative Zen Stone review in today's paper.